Maria Westerberg - Wild Heart

Come along on a fairy tale walk in the woods with the artist Maria Westerberg, Wild Heart. Meet a few known and many unknown creatures. Hear their unique stories. We bring the sheath knife, a carving mind and we’ll see what happens. Maybe we will fall over a few crooked surprises. It should be fun to stay in the forest. It should be sustainable to work in the forest.

Come, let’s go out and play with the wood.

Hugs, Mia

Website (in English):

http://ingur.com/vildhjarta/EN/mariaEN.shtml

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Exhibitors in the art tent on the Forest Festival 2010

Thursday to Sunday: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Rebecca Lindahl

Drawings

Lives and works in Stockholm, with a half foot in Lapland.

Has a fascination for the physical sense of material, the meticulous consciousness and planning, but perhaps most of all the mistakes and what is not expected, a constant presence and a narrative, but perhaps above all that I do not know. The driving force is lust in a broad sense.

Website: http://www.rebeccalindahl.com

Kata Säfve

Photo and graphics

Born in Falun and grew up in the archipelago of Stockholm. Has studied at Elias Mickelsson’s art school where she worked with art as an environmental activist. Trained art teacher. Forest activist, board member in the national organization Protect the Forest and in the local organization Hjärtats eko (Echo of the Heart). Ecotourism organizer.

Kata will during the Forest Festival exhibit graphics and photography, about and with the forest, the soul of man.

Maria Sundqvist

Paintings

My work consists of nature images made in oil. I create my own world with the help of colours and the forest as my main instruments. The light that shimmers behind the trees, an environment that is mysterious and magical. The patterns of trees and shimmering colours that appear in my work are recurring parallels to my childhood. I grew up in a small village near the Finnish border, so the vicinity to the forest has imprinted my childhood. The light in Tornedalen, northern lights, midnight sun - the dark winter and the bright summer has meant a lot to my creation. When I work with nature images, I am reminded of how extensive the subject is.

Maria Sundqvist is studying the third year at Örebro Art College.